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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Three .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do Alena and Peter react to the unnamed narrator's response to the art in Alena's apartment?
(a) They cry.
(b) They shriek.
(c) They laugh.
(d) They whisper.

2. The distinguished female author tells the unnamed narrator that when she was in the first grade, she openly laughed when given the news that which person had died?
(a) Her teacher's son.
(b) Her teacher.
(c) Her teacher's daughter.
(d) Her sister.

3. What is the only element of the physical world that gives the unnamed narrator a feeling of excitement?
(a) The ocean.
(b) The natural world.
(c) Built space.
(d) The sky.

4. To whose apartment does the unnamed narrator go after he leaves the literary dinner in Part Three?
(a) Alena.
(b) Sharon.
(c) Alex.
(d) Jon.

5. How does the unnamed narrator react to holding pieces of a sculpture?
(a) He is disgusted.
(b) He laughs.
(c) He is silent.
(d) He cries.

Short Answer Questions

1. The unnamed narrator brings a book by which poet to the Mt. Sinai Hospital when he visits Bernard in Part One?

2. What does the unnamed narrator describe in his comments at Columbia's School of Arts as the "shadow language to Reagan's official narrative processing of the national tragedy" (114)?

3. During the author's final walk with Liza before he must call the doctor to choose a form of sedation, the light is described in what way?

4. In what magazine was the section of the text entitled Part Two: The Golden Vanity originally published as a short story?

5. Liza tells the author that he would save how many dollars by opting for local anesthesia?

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